Data engineering is using conda-packed conda environments for job distribution in Hadoop, and we are trying to automate the generation of these conda env artifacts using gitlab CI.
gitlab CI runs in docker containers. We can use external docker images (for now) since the CI runs in Cloud VPS, but I'd prefer if we could use official images from docker-registry.wikimmedia.org.
I've tried a few ways of automating conda installs (here, and here), all of which are a little hacky.
So, I'd like to make or import a conda .deb into our apt repo, and then create a simple gerrit repo that uses our Deployment Pipeline to generate docker images with conda installed (via that .deb).
I could skip the .deb step, but I think that having a conda .deb will be nice for other reasons, like T302819: Replace anaconda-wmf with smaller, non-stacked Conda environments.